In the past several years, online casinos have really raised the bar in consumer protection.  As a matter of fact it is one of the few industries where consumer protection is a leading talking point; that is likely due to the fact that was one of the major consumer concerns in the early stages of the business.  However, as safe as online casinos have become, there is always room for improvement.

Cyber criminals, like any criminal element, never cease to find new ways circumventing the law.  That is why online casinos have to stay on their toes to stay ahead of the criminals if they want to keep the financial and personal information of the customers safe.

Chocolate Consulting has teamed up with VeriSign in order to improve security and preventative measures at online casinos.  Both companies have extensive experience in the online gambling industry.  The main tools of protecting online casinos and their customers have been encryption methods, secured data transfers, and mainframes for data storage, research by Chocolate Consulting confirms that these measures may not be enough.

The major tools on the other side are hacking, data mining, and phishing. Cyber criminals are mostly interested in stealing money and or credit.  VeriSign offers VeriSign Identity Protection, a program protects both online casinos and online gamblers from hacking.  However Chocolate Consulting would like to see Distribution Denial of Service attacks prevented.  They company believes this is necessary to fully protect online casinos.  

Distribution Denial of Service attacks entails the systematic flooding of data on a targeted server.  This has the ability to cut a servers connection to the Web.